Oh, you’ll hear a lot about crime in New Haven. It’s overstated.

The small city + dense city limits skews rankings to make the city appear worse than it is.

There’s also a fair amount of racism involved in those conversations and much of it perpetuated by Yale. For years, they included a map of the city in their orientation materials with “suggested areas to live”. Ofc they labeled mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods as dangerous even when crime stats didn’t correlate.

Their other motivation was to buy up a lot of property in the city and lease it out at higher than market rates. They’ve largely been successful.